Apple's legal beef with Samsung is storied and well established, with an oft-quoted passage in Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs where the late Apple co-founder promised to go to "thermo-nuclear war" to stop Android, the operating system used in Samsung's most popular devices.

Only, it seems that if Tim Cook had had his way, there'd be no war, thermo-nuclear or otherwise.

According to a report in Reuters, Tim Cook opposed the idea of going after Samsung in court. The reason: Cook worried that as a major supplier of parts for the iPhone and other Apple devices, Samsung could make trouble for Apple's supply chain if they pursued them too aggressively.

Jobs, for his part, was fed up with Samsung after it released the Galaxy Tab, a device he felt was a copy of the iPad.

Still, the news is interesting in that it highlights the stylistic differences between the two Apple chief executives — Jobs is visionary and emotional, while Cook, the mastermind behind Apple's world-class supply chain, is more cautious and pragmatic.

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